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(f) DUE CLEANLINESS shall be observed in regard to
such room shop or other part of a building and all articles
apparatus and utensils therein and shall be observed by persons
engaged in such room shop or other part of a building.
If any person occupies or lets or knowingly suffers to be
occupied any such room shop or other part of a building wherein
any of the conditions prohibited by this section exist or does or
knowingly permits any act or thing therein in contravention of
this section he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not
exceeding for the first offence twenty shillings and for every
subsquent offence five pounds and in either case to a daily penalty
not exceeding twenty shillings.
As regards the milk supply it is suggested that all milk should
be partially cooked or sterilised in order to kill disease germs,
milk containing cooked disease germs instead of clean milk being
the highest attainable ideal, and the percentage of Tuberculous
milk detected in the London supply varying from 3 to 10 percent.
of samples, and it is still a remarkable fact that the powers of
the Public Health authorities in preventing infection by tuberculous
persons remain purely persuasive, being circumscribed by Article
XVI. of the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1912,
which is as follows :—
' Exception and application of Enactments.
Article XVI.—Nothing in these Regulations shall have
effect so as to apply, or so as to authorise or require a
Medical Officer of Health or a Local Authority, or any other
person or authority, directly or indirectly, to put in force
with respect to any person in relation to whom a notification
in pursuance of these Regulations has been transmitted to
a Medical Officer of Health any enactment which renders
the person, or any one in charge of the person, or any